Name: Irish Wake Amusements
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Author: Ó. Súilleabháin, Seán
ISBN: 9781856351737

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Author

Seán Ó. Súilleabháin

Publisher

Mercier Press

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8x13.3x1 cm

Weight

0.21 kg.

ISBN13

9781856351737

Synopsis "Irish Wake Amusements"

First published in Irish in 1961 and in English in 1967, this classic work has never been superseded as a treatment of the fascinating subject of traditional wakes in Ireland. As well as eating, drinking, smoking a pipe and taking snuff, many other forms of entertainment were common in Irish wakes, to pass the long hours of the night or two nights of the wake. These included storytelling, singing, dancing, music, card-playing, riddling and rhyming, and feats of agility and strength both inside the wake-house and in an adjoining field before the funeral started next day. Seán Ó Súilleabháin also shows that Ireland, far from being different from other countries, was part of the general European (and world) pattern in holding prolonged and merry wakes.

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